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The 35-year-old Spaniard defeated Cameron Norris 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to win the Mexican Open and extend his career-best start for a season to 15-0 as he won his 91st ATP title.
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London: Two of Russia’s top-10 tennis players — the soon to be world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev and No. 7 Andrey Rublev — have expressed their despair with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying that they want peace. A report on edition.cnn.com said late on Friday that Medvedev, the 2021 US Open champion who is […]
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Melbourne: The 35-year-old Spaniard has broken the men’s record for most Grand Slam singles titles but he had to do it the hard way by coming back from two sets down to beat Daniil Medvedev in an Australian Open final that lasted 5 hours and 24 minutes. He was broken when serving for the championship […]
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Melbourne: Spaniard Rafael Nadal has stormed into the final of Australian Open 2022 keeping alive his dream of becoming first men’s player to win 21 Grand Slam titles. Nadal defeated Italy’s Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the semi-final here at the Rod Laver Arena to storm into his sixth Australian Open final. The […]
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Melbourne: Showing his legendary fight and grit that has defined his career, Rafael Nadal overcame an abdominal injury to beat Denis Shapovalov in a five-set quarterfinal and reach the 2022 Australian Open semifinal, here on Tuesday. Playing in his 14th Melbourne quarterfinal, Nadal battled through to his seventh semifinal with a 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, […]
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Melbourne: For the first set, Naomi Osaka’s rediscovered love of the game meant it was anything but fun for Madison Brengle in the third round of the Australian Open. The defending champion conceded only four points in the first four games Wednesday and rifled forehand winners seemingly at will as she breezed to 6-0 in […]
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Australian Open will be a great Australian Open with or without him." Currently, nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic is still in the draw to defend his title in Melbourne.
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Melbourne: Top-ranked Ash Barty has advanced to the Adelaide International WTA womens singles semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin while Rafael Nadal advanced via a walkover in tune-up tournaments ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam event. Barty used her usual backhand slice and powerful forehand drive but […]
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The Olympics beginning in Tokyo from July 23 will see many firsts -- deferred by a year, no crowds, athletes in a bio-bubble and stringent protocolsÂ
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With this win, Djokovic now has 20 Grand Slams to his name and he is now equal with Swiss tennis maestro Roger Federer and Spanish player Rafael Nadal
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The Serbian tennis star defeated 10th seed Shapovalov 7-6(3), 7-5, 7-5 to set the summit clash with seventh seed Matteo Berrettini.
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Nadal lost to world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the French Open semi-finals recently.
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It was Nadal's third loss in 108 matches at a tournament he won each of the last four years, including by beating Djokovic in the 2020 final.
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Nadal, who went into the match with 105-2 (win-loss) record and with a 7-1 record against the Serb, was the outright favourite to win the match and set up a final clash with Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. For, he had lost only one set in this year's tournament
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Defeats Slovenia's Tamara Zidansek in straight sets
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Djokovic overcame a cut in his left hand that saw his racquet dripping with blood immediately after the crowd had been cleared from the stands in the fourth set due to 11pm night curfew in Paris.
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Cruises into record 12th successive 4th round of French Open; Kenin advances
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Whether a younger generation of men finally is poised to consistently win Grand Slam titles
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The victory also earned Nadal a 36th ATP Masters 1000 crown, equalling Djokovic’s record since the series was established in 1990.
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The victory gave second seeded Nadal the 36th ATP Masters 1000 crown, equalling top seeded Djokovic's all-time record, since the series was established in 1990.